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Originally Posted by rubicon
I read once that the least painful manner of capital punishment was the guillotine. but the thought of it.
I also believe there is no comparing killing in a civil society to that of killing because of a war because if one views killing as killing to be wrong then we ought to include the topics of abortion and physician assisted suicide
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8 Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine - History Lists
It has an interesting history.
I watched a DVD about an English hangman who executed many of the Nazis who were sentenced to die by the Nuremberg judges. He had been very good at calculating just the right drops of the noose. One big problem though was that one of the people he executed turned out to be innocent.
Pierrepoint (film - Wikipedia)
Timothy Evans - Wikipedia
These all or nothing scenarios seem impractical to me though. They should try to do the best with what they have whether they have the death penalty in that state or not. Victim/survivors have to accept whatever is the law in that State and hope that the State got the right person. More eyes and ears looking for justice is a good thing IMHO. And logical brains not those filled with vengeance. I know how hard that is though when a dearly beloved is the victim from my own experiences with the Mitchells and their many students and how messed up that investigation became mostly because of the community's need for closure.